My Favorite Alternative Treatments for Depression

The brain is a:
• self‑perpetuating,
• self‑fulfilling
• memory
• that skews and slants (distorts)
• as it filters what gets in

…and of course, what gets in determines what next gets in …which then determines what gets out …which determines what you pay attention to, which determines what you draw to you, and determines your life experience, and so on.

"I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances." Martha Washington

What we pay attention to largely determines our disposition, our experience of life, our personal reality. Many say our attention is our greatest gift. It is where we have the most power.

“Moment by moment we choose and
sculpt how our ever‑changing
minds will work, we choose who
we will be the next moment in a
very real sense, and these choices
are left embossed in physical form
on our material selves.” (Train
Your Mind, Change Your Brain)

When you feel depressed or anxious, this “choice” is absent. It is NOT your fault. Brain patterns (self-perpetuating and self-fulfilling) are ruining your life.

Instead of managing medication, Resonance Repatterning provides alternative treatments for depression that stop the patterned cycle at the source.

Our attention is mostly automatic, like breathing. Depressed or anxious people often try to manage their thoughts by paying attention to them. This is valuable and a good place to start.

But look at what happens when you go deeper. Rather than merely managing thoughts you can use alternative treatments for depression to:

Heal the patterns at the source of your thoughts.

Free your attention to focus on loving life.

Feel enthusiastic about growth.

Automatically.

So…what does determine your disposition, or what you pay attention to? For that, we have to start at the beginning. Brain patterns form even before birth. These patterns filter and develop how our brains shape our experiences.

because it helps release the original patterns that continue to create current issues.

Before birth, a baby’s brain develops in response to its mother

"If mother feels unloved or unsupported, is threatened, anxious, and fearful nature will give greater emphasis to her baby's ancient core brain, with its defensive and survival systems, at the expense of evolution's newer creative capacities.” 5 (Origins of Peace and Violence)

Once born, the baby absorbs like a new sponge. But only part of the brain is fully developed.The baby’s thinking brain isn’t needed or developed yet. The developed part is the seat of emotions and memory, so baby can emotionally bond with its caregiver. And baby has memory in order to adapt.

“The brain’s remarkable adaptability at birth,
together with the infant’s emotional focus on
its primary caregiver, sets up a lifelong pattern
for the individual’s thoughts, feelings, and
behavior.” 4 (The Developing Mind, How Relationships
and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are).

For a baby, many simple events are interpreted as stressful (ANY separation from mother/caregiver is first on the list - and second is mother’s stress).

“During pregnancy, birth and beyond,
nature locks the mother and baby's
biorhythms, heart frequencies, hormonal
balances, sleep patterns and a thousand
other living systems into reciprocal
bonded patterns. Lack of affectionate,
intimate contact between mothers and
infants during the most sensitive periods
of brain growth may result in permanent
brain abnormalities associated with
patterns of depression, substance abuse,
eating disorders, aggression and violence." 5 (Origins of Peace and Violence)